Chapter 2 of the Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - data for Figure 2.12 (v20220701)

Data for Figure 2.12 from Chapter 2 of the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Figure 2.12 shows changes in temperature through the troposphere and stratosphere, both on near-global scales and in the tropics. --------------------------------------------------- How to cite this dataset --------------------------------------------------- When citing this dataset, please include both the data citation below (under 'Citable as') and the following citation for the report component from which the figure originates: Gulev, S.K., P.W. Thorne, J. Ahn, F.J. Dentener, C.M. Domingues, S. Gerland, D. Gong, D.S. Kaufman, H.C. Nnamchi, J. Quaas, J.A. Rivera, S. Sathyendranath, S.L. Smith, B. Trewin, K. von Schuckmann, and R.S. Vose, 2021: Changing State of the Climate System. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 287–422, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.004. --------------------------------------------------- Figure subpanels --------------------------------------------------- The figure has 5 subpanels, with data provided for panel a. --------------------------------------------------- List of data provided --------------------------------------------------- This dataset contains observed temperature anomaly trends for 2002-2019 from the ROM SAF dataset, plotted as a trend/height/latitude contour plot. --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to figure --------------------------------------------------- Data provided in relation to Figure 2.12: - Data file: Figure_2_12a_data_file.nc: tdry_trends filled contours plot - Data file: Figure_2_12a_data_file.nc: lrt_temprature_altitude grey line ROM SAF stands for Radio Occultation Meteorology Satellite Application Facilities. --------------------------------------------------- Notes on reproducing the figure from the provided data --------------------------------------------------- Panel (a) is plotted using standard matplotlib software. There are notes guiding the user to reproduce the figure in the code associated to this dataset. Link to the code that reproduces the figure in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record. --------------------------------------------------- Sources of additional information --------------------------------------------------- The following weblinks are provided in the Related Documents section of this catalogue record: - Link to the figure on the IPCC AR6 website - Link to the report component containing the figure (Chapter 2) - Link to the Supplementary Material for Chapter 2, which contains details on the input data used in Table 2.SM.1 - Link to input data figure 2.12. - Link to the code for the figure, archived on Zenodo.